Means for securing glass beads on single perforated sign-boards.



m VENNER. MEANS FOR SECURING GLASS BEADS ON SINGLE PERFORATED SIGN BOARDS. APPLICATION FILED JUNE-1B, 1909 936, 1 99% I Patented Oct. 5. 1909 ji .10. 6 c I Witness 651 m l mama tor;

{@ZQIQTL/ J of ROBERT F. VEKNEB, OF ADDISCGMBE, ENGLAND.

MEANS FOR SEGUEING QLASS BEADS 0N SINGLE.- PERFORATED SIG-h-EOARKES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented (let. 5, 390?.

Application filed June 18, 1809. Serial No. 503,018.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it lmown that L llonani FRANCIS VnN- min, a subject of the King of l lagland, residing at. Addiseoinhe, in the'eounty of Surrey; in the Kingdom of England, have inrented new and useful improvements in Means for Securing Glass Beads on Single Perforated Sign-Boards, of which the following is a SpQl'lfiClIilOll.

This invention relates to illuminated sign the sign to he clearly read from various an g 'llar points. 'lo this end according to my arrangement, the perforations in the single plate forming the sign-hoard or the like are of slightly smaller size than the diameter of the heads so as to form retaining seals therefor, and a wire, or wires, is or are secured in the beads in such a manner as to hold them tight. into their seats.

Various embodiments of my ini ention are shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 cross-section respectively of a single plate sign-hoard having pertain ions with diametrically opposed notches; Fig. 3 a erosssee- 'ion of a slightly modified arrangement;

Figs. i and 5 are a fractional elevation and a mess-section respectively ()f-"itsll'lglfi plate sign-hoard having independent small pen forations for the passage of the wire for securing the heads; Fig.6 is a fractional elevation of a sigu hoard haying elliptical holoslor lhe reception of round heads; I- 7 is a ci'osslsection show. 1;; heads applied alternately front and hark in i'wlljrieted seats of a single plate; Fig. 8 is a amass-section of a head having {2 narrow hole with trumpetshnperl ends; lig'. 5 a. ('I'OF'l-i-ifitllllill of a modified wiring method for the beads; Fig.

10 is a cross section of a plate with thoheails Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, thesign-honrd which consists of a single plate (.1 has perforations or holes I) forming seals for heads 0 are a fractional and ametrically opposed notches b for the pas sage of a retaining wire a. As will. he seen in Fig. 2,}; continuous wire (5 passes through the perforation of each head one side of the plate a and is then bent so as to lead through the notches b to the opposite side of the plate a. then alongside the plate through the nexlxnotch 7) of another hole 6 where it passes through another head 6 and againto the rea 1 of the plate until a letter is completed. in this manner the heads 0 are securely retained their seatsi Fig. 3 showsthe perforation of each head i set. at: an angle to the plate a in such a manner that the fastening wire d passes into the and drawn righton to head at one side of the plate a and out at the opposite side thereof. This necessitates only one passage of the. Wire (Z through the plate for each head.

Figs. l and 5 show the plate (1 provided with small openings e forming passages for the wire n which serves to secure the heads 0 in .a similar manner to that shown in Figs. 1 and The same effect can be obtained by securing ordinary round heads in elliptical holes If of the plate a so that the retalning wire lies in the. major axis of the elliptical holes If and extends backward through the free endspaces. ()1- round holes 6 may be furnished with beads which leave suthcient space for the passage ot retaining wires such :is the head'n shown in Fig. 8which has wire :4 passes from one sidoof the plate a through the aun'ularly disposed )ei'foration' of Llli. head to the opposite side or said plate,

then along Lothe next head and through some at an opposite angle to that. of the )re- \lJlIt-l head to the front of said plate an so forth.

I claim hiualion with a single perforated late, of

; wrfornlerl lrnnsmront heads sli" itlv ex- Heads ran also be attached to their of a larger diameter. The holes I) have tllllneeding the diameter of the perforations in I an i iummm sign board, the com- WM: singie yerfemized plaw hawti er-21thrmzgh of; perforated 7 Agnrem beads inflated in tha prisrations mi said pizzaand retaining means for said mining means passing through (A thrmzg'n said. in sand I hzxninmed Sign board, the sum- I though said him said beads in pmrfomtmns merem and v. avmg notches with a plate havin. "a plurality of formed therein at the edge of saifl perimations, of a. plurality of perforated transparent beads seated in said perfmations and a retaining wiye passing fmm seial beads mu one side of the plate anal thmugh saifi wishes to the other side thereof,- as'set fO'JflL 20 ROBERT F. VENNER.

Witnesses JOSEPH CHATWIN, I P, PARHAM. 

